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Montana Highway Patrol
State Police agency in Montana, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2017.
- ORI
- MTMHP0000
- Type
- State Police
- County
- Not stated
- State
- Montana (MT)
- FBI reporting
- Reporting since 2017-01-01
- Location
- 47.1222, -112.3829
Workforce
As reported to the FBI for 2025.
| Year | Officers | Civilians | Population served | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 225 | 47 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 213 | 62 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 238 | 43 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 252 | 63 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 245 | 63 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 233 | 75 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 235 | 53 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 232 | 54 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 239 | 55 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 228 | 44 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 239 | 53 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 237 | 57 | 0 | — |
Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.
Bias-motivated incidents in the FBI’s file
No incidents appear in the FBI’s hate crime file for Montana Highway Patrol in any year from 1991 to 2025, as at 14 August 2026. This does not mean none occurred.
Absence from this file is not a zero. The file lists incidents that were reported to the FBI. An agency can be missing from it because it recorded none, because it did not report, or because it does not take part in the FBI’s hate crime program, and nothing Police Census holds can tell these apart. In any one year the file lists incidents for only a minority of the agencies the FBI counts as reporting.
The figures are counts of incidents as they appear in the file, as at 14 August 2026; Police Census does not turn them into a rate and does not compare them with other agencies. Offence and bias wording is the FBI’s own, unaltered. Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, additional datasets, hate crime bulk file, agency record MTMHP0000.
Deaths during encounters with this agency
5 people have died during an encounter with Montana Highway Patrol between 2013 and 2021, according to the two datasets named below.
| Recorded cause | Deaths |
|---|---|
| Gunshot | 4 |
| Vehicle | 1 |
What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.
Source: these records come from Fatal Encounters (3) and Mapping Police Violence (2). Where both recorded the same death it is counted once. They are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. See Deaths for how the two are combined. Mapping Police Violence data is displayed with attribution to its compiler; the written scope of this site’s right to display it is being confirmed (note dated 11 October 2026).
Military surplus received
Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.
| Item | Quantity | Acquisition value | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tractor,Wheeled,Industrial | 1 | $185,000 | 2013-04-16 |
| Helicopter,Observation | 1 | $92,290 | 1996-01-26 |
| Rifle,7.62 Millimeter | 125 | $17,250 | 1990-05-03 |
| Binocular | 6 | $2,208 | 2011-12-22 |
Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.
Source
Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record MTMHP0000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.
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